Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
COURSE SYLLABUS
Professor John R. Nolon
Summer Term 2015
Casebook: French, Korngold, Property (6th ed. 2014)
Supplemental Package: Available in Bookstore
You may also consult relevant sections of the following textbooks for additional help.
These are on reserve:
1. Stoebuck & Whitman, Property, 3rd ed. (2000)
2. Cribbet & Johnson, Principles of the Law of Property (3rd. ed. 1989)
3. Moynihan & Kurtz, Introduction to the Law of Real Property (4th. ed. 2005)
Materials to be covered in the course from the casebook and supplemental materials are
listed below. In addition to briefing and analyzing the cases, carefully consider and work
through the material in the notes and problems. Read all text and notes in the pages
assigned. Materials in the supplement are indicated by an asterisk (*).
1. Introduction: Nature of Property and Possession
Preface pp. xxvii-xxviii
Pierson v. Post pp. 71-77
The Capture Doctrine p. 71
Cribbet & Johnson pp. 9-20
Keeble v. Hickeringill pp. 77-82
*Mullett v. Bradley
*Stephens v. Albers
*Conti v. ASPCA
*Winston Churchill - History of English Peoples
*Editor's Introduction: The Case Law System in America
Anderson v. Beech Corp. pp. 94-99
Water pp.99-11
Cline v. American Aggregate Corp. pp. 100-110
*People v. Waite
*Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club
2. Finders' Rights and Bailments
p. 110
Armory v. Delamirie pp. 111-113
Hanna v. Peel pp. 116-120
McAvoy v. Medina pp. 120-121
Benjamin v. Lindner Aviation, Inc. pp. 121-128
*N.Y. Personal Property Law 251-257
Bailments versus Wrong Doers pp. 113-114
*Peet v. Roth Hotel Co.
*Samples v. Geary
i
*Pavesi v. Carollo
*Morris v. Third Ave. R.R.
The Winkfield pp. 114-116
3. Gifts of Personal Property
pp. 505-506
Cribbet & Johnson pp. 152-158
Irons v. Smallpiece pp. 506-511
*In Re Stevensons Estate
*Garrison v. Union Trust Co.
Newell v. Norwich pp. 511-513
In Re Estate of Smith pp. 514-516
Gruen v. Gruen pp. 521-525
Delivery to a Third Party p.526
Chandler v. Chandler pp.526-531
Joint Bank Accounts and Donative Intent pp. 530-531
Deeds of Gift pp. 520-521
*Cartoon
4. Adverse Possession
Conquest pp. 143-144
Johnson and Grahams Lessee v. MIntosh pp. 144-151
pp.151-154
Cribbet & Johnson pp. 333-339
Stoebuck pp. 853-869
Ewing v. Burnet pp. 154-157; note #1-3; prob.#1-3
Lawrence v. Town of Concord pp.163-171
*Ray v. Beacon Hudson Mountain Corp.
V.
VI.
ii
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.